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Monday, August 22, 2016

A Weekend to do Pretty Much Nothing + Happy Mail and Some Serious Fangirling

Well I’m sure
you’re just dying to read all about our weekend after that post title,
huh? Riveting. Haha.

Our weekend was
a much needed weekend to do not much of anything… No commitments, no major
projects, nowhere to be except for church on Saturday evening and our usual
family lunch and dinner on Sunday. It
was really nice.

Friday evening
started out with a bang when Jacob brought home his very first test from school…
he had a spelling test for his first two red letters – a and is – and he got
them both correct! I’m such a proud
momma!

We went out for
pizza for dinner and then made a Target run for a few things. We had promised Jacob and Olivia that they
could each pick out something small as a reward for both having great first
weeks in their new classes (even though this was Jacob’s second week). Jacob picked out a new Star Wars Lego set –
this kid is obsessed with those all of a sudden! – and Olivia picked out an
Ariel doll even though she has one almost identical to it from the beach
<insert eye roll>. Target was a
bit of a disaster as Olivia was exhausted and a bit crazed from the long week
at school (you’d think we would have learned from the Toys R Us disaster a couple
of weeks ago, but nope). She whined and
cried a good bit, so we hightailed it outta there and went straight home where
we let the kids play for a few minutes before whisking them off to bed so B and
I could squeeze in a couple of episodes of FNL before bedtime. I’m totally hooked, y’all. #CantStopWontStop

Saturday was
glorious. It consisted of baking Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins for breakfast, coloring with the babies, playing, and
working on getting the kids’ baby books caught up. I got to spend lots of quality time with each
child and the kids got along so well when they were playing on their own.

Saturday
evening we went to church and both kids were extremely well-behaved. Jacob slept through the first half which was
crazy because he never naps, and Olivia sat nicely in the pew reading her little
bible. Both got a little squirrelly
toward the end, but that’s to be expected.
An hour is a long time to ask
small children to be totally still and quiet.

After church we
went out with my parents, grandmother, and aunt and uncle to one of our
favorite pubs for dinner and drinks. At
the end of dinner, my aunt busted out the “Snapchap” as Olivia calls it and
everyone had fun cracking up over the filters.
I mean, seriously, they must
stop with the creepy filters. These pics
of Jacob are absolutely terrifying. Lol.

When we got
back home, there was a beautiful package sitting on the front porch and it was
addressed to me. I couldn’t for the life
of me figure out what it was, so I tore into it and was so excited to see Shay
Shull’s (Mix and Match Mama) new cookbook nestled in the box. I knew it was coming as Shay had emailed me
last week to ask if I wanted an advanced copy, but I wasn’t expecting it to
arrive so quickly. It was the perfect Saturday
evening treat! I spent the rest of the
evening watching FNL and flipping through it, and there are some excellent new
recipes to try. I’ve already marked a
couple to try this week!

I posted a
picture of the book on Instagram and a few minutes later look what happened:

Shay liked and commented on my picture! I mean,
seriously! I’m totally fangirling over
here. And then Sunday afternoon I get a notification that someone had tagged me in a picture and I see this:

DYING, you guys!!!! DYING! Shay is just
the sweetest and she has always been one of my favorite bloggers… hers was one
of the very first blogs I ever started reading on a regular basis, so when she
emailed me last week to ask if I wanted an advanced copy, that was a no-brainer. Yes!
The answer is always yes! The new
book will be released October 1 if you want to check it out. And no, she didn’t ask me to
promote the book. I just love her and I
make her recipes all the time, so I’m completely honored to have received a
copy already and I wanted to share that goodness with all of you sweet ladies, too!

Sunday morning
we had leftover Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins, did some laundry, and the kids
destroyed my lovely made up bed while we got ready to go to lunch.

We spent the
afternoon at my in-laws’ eating a delicious lunch that they had prepared and
playing card games with my nephews. They
both learned to play “Speed” recently, and that brought back soooo many
memories from junior high… do y’all remember that game?! It’s one of the best card games ever.

We also played Hi-Ho
Cherry-O… and I'm happy to report that none of the cherries ended up in Olivia's nose or esophagus. ;o) #LittleVictories

Sunday evening
we celebrated my Grandma’s birthday at my parents’ house where we feasted on
BBQ chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, and a new recipe for cauliflower
cakes that my mom found. OMG they were
good. I’ll have to share them some time!

I hope you all
had wonderful weekends with the ones you love and I hope it gave you a fresh
start to the new week!

I have no idea who Shay is but now I totally feel like I need to check her out. That is so cool that she commented on your photo. It really is the little things. Looks like the perfect weekend. I need one like that, maybe this week!

Yay for a low key, yet exciting weekend! Look at Jacob and his first test! What a smart little cookie!!! I'm so excited for you having Shay Shull not only like and comment on your IG, but also thank you on a personal, first name level!!! What what?!?!? So cool, girl!!!! I love those kind of weekends. I hope your week is as awesome!

Oh my gosh, I was melting over Olivia's top on IG this weekend. Such a cute model too! Love that you got the cook book. You'll have to share some recipes. And, yay for Jacob's test. Already aced his first test...I see the Ivy's in his future... ;)

Yay for the new book! That is so amazing! I just love her blog and reading all about her recipes, how she comes up with them, I have no idea! What a great weekend, and my daughter is obsessed with Ariel! I think she must have at least 4 Ariel dolls.

Yes they are, girl! Yes they are! It was our last weekend to do nothing probably until after Christmas because we have birthday parties galore this weekend and then after that it's football, and aaaallll the holidays!

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I’m Lindsay! Wife to Brian and Momma to Jacob and Olivia. Southerner. Georgia Bulldog. Red wine drinker. Cookie cake connoisseur. Music aficionado. Dave Matthews Band devotee. Friends fanatic. Travel enthusiast. Multi-tasking extraordinaire. Curator of pretty things. Lover of fashion and all things pink. Career woman by day and blogger, crafter, DIYer, and organizer by night. Welcome to my blog, where you’ll see the thousands of ideas that are always swirling around in my head finally come to life. I’m so glad that you’re here! ♥

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